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Don't let Swift-boaters sail again
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/15/8 | Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group

Posted on 08/15/2008 8:00:33 AM PDT by SmithL

Here come the goons, right on schedule.

The "author," and I use the term loosely, whose vicious lies damaged John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign has crawled back out from under his rock to spew vicious lies about Barack Obama. Right-wing radio talk-show hosts are dutifully transmitting this concocted venom. This presidential campaign has officially gotten ugly.

The "author" I'm talking about is a man named Jerome Corsi. In a book published last year, "The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada," Corsi claimed that George W. Bush was at the heart of a secret conspiracy to subsume the United States into a post-national, one-worldish North American Union. Corsi's writings on far-right blogs have been even more paranoid and delusional. He has written that pedophilia, for which he used a more graphic term, "is OK with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press." He has referred to Muslims as "ragheads."

Corsi would be known as just another visitor from the outer fringe if he had not been the co-author of "Unfit for Command," the book that slimed Kerry's exemplary record as a Swift boat commander in Vietnam. The allegations in that book were discredited, but not before they had been amplified by the right-wing echo chamber to the point where they raised questions in some voters' minds - perhaps enough to swing the election.

It was an abominable trick, but quite remarkable. Kerry's opponent, George W. Bush, had avoided Vietnam by taking refuge in the Texas Air National Guard. Kerry was a decorated war hero, yet somehow his valor and sense of duty were turned into a political negative and used against him.

Now Corsi, in what he acknowledges is an attempt "to keep Obama from getting elected,"

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bookreview; corsi; gingrich; nobama; obama; obamanation; swiftboat; waaaaaa
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To: claymax

sorry, guys, but my son was playing with the mouse and he hit it 2 other times. I didn’t mean to post my comment 3 times. (don’t be hard on him, he is only 2 lol)


81 posted on 08/15/2008 8:53:49 AM PDT by claymax ("Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all." Alexander the Great)
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To: SmithL
Another "journalist" for censorship and stifling dissent. He is not biased, is he?

Corsi would be known as just another visitor from the outer fringe if he had not been the co-author of "Unfit for Command," the book that slimed Kerry's exemplary record as a Swift boat commander in Vietnam. The allegations in that book were discredited, but not before they had been amplified by the right-wing echo chamber to the point where they raised questions in some voters' minds - perhaps enough to swing the election.

It was an abominable trick, but quite remarkable. Kerry's opponent, George W. Bush, had avoided Vietnam by taking refuge in the Texas Air National Guard. Kerry was a decorated war hero, yet somehow his valor and sense of duty were turned into a political negative and used against him.

Kerry's record "exemplary"? He wounded himself and left his men behind, then he slimed them. Nothing in Corsi's Kerry book has ever been proven wrong, despite the claims of these "mainstream" journos. W did not avoid Vietnam (unless you believe Dan Rather and his forged documents)...he asked to be sent on active duty and was turned down...but what does accuracy matter when you're trying to make a political point, eh, Gene Robinson?

82 posted on 08/15/2008 8:54:09 AM PDT by mak5
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To: SmithL
FactChecking Obama's FactChecking

"It would help Obama's campaign if they, while trying to refute Corsi, did not refer to Bob Beckel as a Republican strategist. Twice."

83 posted on 08/15/2008 8:55:05 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: claymax

Perhaps he was echoing Dear ol Dad’s sentiments! L0L


84 posted on 08/15/2008 8:57:00 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Yo-Yo

Bob Beckel! Ha!


85 posted on 08/15/2008 8:57:56 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mak5
...The allegations in that book were discredited,

In LiberalLand, the SBVFT were "discredited" because the New York Times said they were "discredited".

Not that they ever presented any evidence or arguments to support the assertion...

86 posted on 08/15/2008 8:59:31 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: SmithL

40 pages of nit picking drivel as rebuttal..

..NOT A WORD ABOUT THE FAKE CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH


87 posted on 08/15/2008 8:59:56 AM PDT by Wil H
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To: gridlock

His middle name isn’t Henry, it’s Hussein. :)


88 posted on 08/15/2008 9:01:19 AM PDT by ichabod1 (If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it, and if it stops moving, subsidize it.)
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To: SmithL
Why is it so difficult for the media to understand that what is scary to most of us about Obama has nothing to do with his race, but it is the fact an incompetent, inexperienced, virtually unknown with far leftest leanings, might actually win this election?
89 posted on 08/15/2008 9:06:09 AM PDT by jennyjenny (Obama is for inflation)
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To: griswold3
I bought two yesterday after reading the NYT ‘review’.

YEAH!, SeEE? I heard that the NYT review has a DAGGAR bye it cuz right wing-grrrs are hbuying it up bye the case and putting it in warehouses or something.

90 posted on 08/15/2008 9:06:59 AM PDT by ichabod1 (If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it, and if it stops moving, subsidize it.)
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To: seoul62

It was the first book I saw when I entered the B & N in my area. Front and center on the first display table.


91 posted on 08/15/2008 9:09:56 AM PDT by jennyjenny (Obama is for inflation)
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To: ichabod1
I bought it and may or may not get around to reading it prior to the election (or ever) simply because I don't need any further convincing that Obama is not the right guy for the job. I just wanted to do my part to cause the media and Obama camp get their panties in a knot over the number of sales the book has.
92 posted on 08/15/2008 9:14:48 AM PDT by jennyjenny (Obama is for inflation)
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To: ichabod1
Nah, I bought one copy and it is sitting on my coffee table. I do want as many guests as possible that enter my house to see it.
93 posted on 08/15/2008 9:18:52 AM PDT by jennyjenny (Obama is for inflation)
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To: SmithL
The "author," and I use the term loosely, whose vicious lies damaged John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign

Doesn't accusing someone of lying when they are telling the truth constitute libel?

94 posted on 08/15/2008 9:23:20 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: SmithL

Eugene Robinson is an IDIOT! don’t you know that the NATIONAL GUARD is part of the military, mr. Robinson?


95 posted on 08/15/2008 9:25:25 AM PDT by RightWingTeen (Caution: homeschooled teen with a Brain that works - LIBERALS you can't control me!!)
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To: SmithL

“has crawled back out from under his rock to spew vicious lies about Barack Obama”.....says the “journalist” who appears almost nightly with Keith Olbermann.

What a crock!


96 posted on 08/15/2008 9:26:39 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: Hildy
NO, they weren't. In fact Kerry has NEVER made his military record public. And is his own reports he admits that at least one and maybe two of his Purple Heart boo-boos were self inflicted accidents.
97 posted on 08/15/2008 9:27:31 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Abathar

Tell us Gene.....did Kerry ever sign his form 180?

And if not, why not?


98 posted on 08/15/2008 9:28:00 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: Will88

John France Ketchup is going to release then when pigs fly!!


99 posted on 08/15/2008 9:31:06 AM PDT by RightWingTeen (Caution: homeschooled teen with a Brain that works - LIBERALS you can't control me!!)
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To: JimRed
Kerry was a decorated war hero...

With decorations made from construction paper!! :-) I believe JFK got a medal for map reading, let let him read the map to take them to BOSTON, but he ended up in Cambodia!! :-)

100 posted on 08/15/2008 9:33:54 AM PDT by RightWingTeen (Caution: homeschooled teen with a Brain that works - LIBERALS you can't control me!!)
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